Casa singola in vendita a Quargnento
QUARGNENTO - 300MQ Proponiamo in vendita a Quargnento, una spaziosa PORZIONE di casa libera su tre lati e disposta su tre livelli, per una superficie complessiva di circa 300mq. L'immobile è così composto: - Piano terra: ingresso con scala centrale, sala, cucina e due camere con la concreta possibilità di ricavare…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
In the listingNeeds renovationSee what needs doing and what each job costs
The €57,000 asking price is attractive at €190/m², but the 300 m² house needs substantial renovation, including a heating system, raw attic works and roof restoration. At an estimated €700/m² renovation cost, the effective cost is about €890/m², far above the local €356/m² benchmark; the listing also does not state the energy class.
More on the house and the area
A substantial early-20th-century townhouse with an attractive full-width balcony, decorative façade, mature private courtyard, and a genuinely livable main interior. The home is solid and furnished rather than a ruin, but it is dated, lacks central heating, and includes a raw attic plus roof-restoration needs.
Certified wiring, water and drainage, a heat source, a roof that keeps the water out, one working bathroom. Facade, insulation, a second bathroom and the floors wait.
All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.
Our read of the photos, €700/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€59,000 – €105,000
Wiring, water and sanitary work of any kind, heating, air conditioning and gas go to a registered firm by law, and so do flues and the air openings for gas appliances. That labour stays in the bill. Yours is the stripping out, plaster, paint, floors, tiling and carpentry.
Labour is 61% of a renovation price on average and 67% at the median, across 191 items of the Emilia-Romagna 2025 public price list. Materials are the rest. An averaged price list, not a quote.
Materials you buy yourself carry 22% VAT; supplied by the firm doing the work they go at the 10% renovation rate. On a €30,000 materials bill that is €3,600 of extra tax.
Household wiring installed before 13 March 1990 counts as compliant if it has a main breaker with overcurrent protection, protection against direct contact and a 30 mA RCD. Having a firm bring the existing wiring up to that and certify it is the cheapest lawful route.
Bringing a house that has stood empty back into service: new water, sewer and electricity, plus the practices. The same sum on an 80 m² house and on a 300 m² one, which is why a €40,000 house is not a €40,000 project.
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Water 1,800 · sewer 2,500 · electricity 700–1,600 · CILA 1,000 · cadastral filing 500 · structural design 700 · Legge 10 report 900 · safety coordination 1,800
No mains drain: add €2,000–4,500 for a septic tank. Listings never say, so ask.
- No traditional heating system is installed.
- The attic is completely unfinished, and the roof needs restoration work.
- Interiors and bathroom are dated and will need renovation or substantial refreshing.
- Only one bathroom is shown for a very large 300 sqm house.
Estimate from the listing and its photos, not a survey. Treat it as the starting point for your own quotes. An Italian builder's quote is normally written without VAT and without design fees, so add about a quarter to any figure a firm gives you.
The area around
Location score 49/100This is the flat to gently rolling countryside between Alessandria and the lower Monferrato hills, with fields, scattered farmsteads and small villages. The Tanaro runs a few kilometres to the south, and the Po plain landscape is close by. Alessandria is the nearest town of size, with full services, a rail junction and a substantial historic centre. The wider area is known for agriculture and, north and west toward Monferrato, for wine country, but the immediate surroundings of Quargnento are mainly ordinary rural plain-edge terrain.